CONAN AND MILIUS DO LUNCH: THE REAL STORY!Schwarzenegger enthusiastic to bring Conan back! Reported By: Randy Jennings Saturday, January 26, 2002 Has your Arnold news been a little slow here at The ARNOLD FAN for the past few days? Well, I'm sure you'll forgive us when you hear the reason we were out. Warner Bros. personally invited me along to attend the 15-day-early advance press-screening of Collateral Damage and to cover the round table cast interviews held in The Four Seasons Hotel the following day. Now you’ll just have to wait a little while longer for the interview Q&A as well as to hear what I personally thought of Arnold’s latest action-thriller. However, there is one piece of information I will share with you now. Prepare yourselves by putting on your Basil Poledouris Conan The Barbarian soundtrack before you read on. At the end of the “roundtable” interview session held yesterday, Friday afternoon, a WB publicist thanked Arnold for coming. This was Arnold’s cue to be excused, stand and have one last sip of water before exiting. As Arnold held his glass, the WB representative continued. “...AND we have one other very special guest here: The Arnold Fan .com. Arnold, beaming down at me, gave me a toast gesture of his glass. This was the perfect opportunity. Sure, the official interview was over but the most important question was still not asked – until now. The Arnold Fan: What about King Conan? Have you spoken to John Milius recently about all the positive buzz of “Crown of Iron” and will this project happen? At this time every recorder that was shut off, due to thinking the interview was over, was instantly thrust into Schwarzenegger’s face. ARNOLD Yeah, I just saw Milius yesterday. We did lunch and a stogie. You’re talking about Conan right? Yeah, he’s rewriting it as we speak...because it was a one hundred and sixty-eight page script. One of the brothers called – the Wachowski bothers, Ah, that’s right, I knew it was a Polish name. The Wachowski brothers called and said he should reduce the script because it would be a three and a half hour movie and we should cut it down to a hundred and twenty pages, and take certain things out and that’s what he’s doing right now. Because as you know, with John, things take time. He’s not the quickest guy in town. He smokes a stogie and then he writes a page and then he smokes another stogie.” There you have it Arnold and Conan fans, a The ARNOLD FAN exclusive! I can not tell you how enthusiastic Arnold was in his response to the question. It was 100% obvious Schwarzenegger is completely ready to pray to the mighty Crom once again. Arnold listens to you, the fans, and he knows what the fans think is best in life! ---------- |